Genie Music sets itself apart with focus on metaverse, NFTs

Audio streaming platform Genie Music Corp. has held four metaverse concerts for K-pop singer Jamie Park so far this month. At one point during ...

MBK, IMM to invest over $300 mn in Megazone Cloud

MBK Partners and IMM Private Equity will each be investing 200 billion won ($167 million) in Megazone Cloud Corp., the first South Korean business p...

Hyundai Motor launches robotaxi service in upscale Gangnam district

City governments, automakers, and tech giants are leading the adoption of robotaxis in major cities throughout South Korea. The Ministry of Lan...

NHN looks to regain former glory as online game powerhouse

South Korea’s first-generation game developer NHN Corp. is gearing up to regain its past glory as the leader of the game industry.The tech gia...

S.Korea urged to embrace nuclear power to go carbon free

The topic of RE100, a multinational campaign to make a full switch to renewable energy by 2050, was brought up last week during a debate among four ...

Mastern buys Pangyo office landmarks for $834 mn

Mastern Investment Management Co., a Seoul-based real estate investment firm, has acquired Alpharium Tower I and II in Pangyo from ARA Asset Manag...

Kakao to launch webtoon service Piccoma in France

Kakao Corp. announced Sunday that it plans to launch the European version of its webtoon subscription service in either April or May of this year....

Hyundai Motor launches robotaxi service in upscale Gangnam district

City governments, automakers, and tech giants are leading the adoption of robotaxis in major cities throughout South Korea.  The Ministry of L...

Megazone Cloud to attract up to $336 mn for 2023 IPO

Megazone Cloud Corp., a leading cloud service provider and the first Korean business partner of Amazon Web Service (AWS), plans to attract 300 billi...

Korea's Mirae Asset to launch digital asset business

Mirae Asset Financial Group, South Korea’s capital market giant, is set to enter the digital asset business, starting with a digital asset cus...

KT, Shinhan form $370 mn digital alliance

South Korea's leading telecom operator KT Corp. has entered into a strategic alliance with the country's No. 2 lender Shinhan Bank, involving a $370...

The Princeton Review up for sale by Korean edutech firm

South Korea's leading edutech service firm has put The Princeton Review up for sale, five years after it acquired the US college test preparation se...

Dubai sovereign fund injects $52 mn in debt-laden Ssangyong E&C

Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. has raised 62.1 billion won ($51.6 million) in a rights issue from its largest shareholder Investment C...

Former K-pop dancer turns to AI for personal training services

When Dia Kang first moved to Silicon Valley in October 2016 to create a dance app to learn K-pop moves, there was no worldwide pandemic. By Jan...

SK Telecom and KT to compete in AI chipmaking 

SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp. are poised to go head to head in manufacturing chips for artificial intelligence. The telecom giants will utilize their...

Hyundai to launch Level 3 self-driving Genesis G90 in H2

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, aims to roll out mass-produced hands-free Level 3 self-driving cars, starting with the flagshi...

FTC announces conditions for Korean Air, Asiana merger

South Korea’s antitrust regulator the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has decided on conditional approval for Korean Air Lines Co.‘s 1.8 tri...

Retirement packages unexpectedly benefit young talent

Voluntary retirement packages, often coming with generous compensation, have been adopted by companies as a way to let go of older or redundant empl...

Hyundai’s Motional, Uber to launch self-driving food delivery service

Motional Inc., a US mobility joint venture between Hyundai Motor Co. and Aptiv PLC, has teamed up with Uber Technologies Inc. to provide an autonomo...

Activist fund again urges SK Chem to sell SK Bioscience stake

An activist fund has again urged South Korea’s SK Chemicals to sell part of its stake in SK Bioscience or buy back treasury shares and cancel ...

EQT chairman sees technology and services as attractive sectors in Korea

High price tags of target companies can be justified if you understand long-term trends of the industry and have expertise in the sectors, Conni Jon...

Hyundai to bolster in-car video services with CJ ENM

Drivers of Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are set to enjoy their favorite original TV shows and dramas in-vehicle in near real-time, created by Sou...

S.Korea's Oct c/a surplus down 40% on oil price rises

South Korea's current account surplus in October narrowed by 40% from a year earlier, with the rapid rise in crude oil and raw material prices offse...

Kakao extends rivalry with Naver into digital healthcare

Kakao Corp., an operator of South Korea's top mobile messenger app KakaoTalk, has set its sights on the digital healthcare market, launching an in-h...

GS Retail invests $55 mn in Kakao Mobility to boost online presence

GS Retail Co. is investing 65 billion won ($55 million) in Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea's No.1 taxi-hailing app, adding to its recent series of...

SK Square to invest $75 mn in Korea crypto exchange

South Korea’s SK Square, an investment firm spun off from SK Telecom Co., will buy a stake in a local cryptocurrency exchange to expand its po...

Hyundai to run IONIQ 5 self-driving robotaxi pilot service in H1, 2022

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. will launch a pilot service of its first autonomous robotaxi based on its electric SUV, the IONI...

Korea’s Toss operator invests $5 mn in US startup fintech platform Republic

Viva Republica Inc., a leading South Korean fintech unicorn and operator of mobile financial super app Toss, is investing $5 million in Republic, a ...

BTS becomes first Asian act to win top AMA honor

The world’s No. 1 boy band BTS became the first Asian act to take the prize for artist of the year at the American Music Awards, one of the to...

Korean auto parts makers call for govt financial support

Representatives of South Korean auto parts makers on Friday called on the government to increase their financial support of the sector, including ta...